ARITHMETICAL PRODIGY.
— -*->~~ —— "HGHTNING GALCUIiATIONS" BY ... A BOX OP SIXTEEN. A remarkable demonstration, of mental .calculating. has been- given- at a meeting of the Ceylon branch,' of Royal Asiatic Society at Colombo by Ar-umogahi, a sixteenryent-old arithmetical' prodigy. Aritttiogani is a Tamil boy belonging to a woi'king'class family. He Ss quite illiterate,- and displays bat. little intelligence outside Ms faculty for calculating. He has five fingers, .on each hand and six toes on each foot., Sir Hugh Clifford, Colonial Secretary for Ceyloft, presided'attho meeting, and a nuittbor of problems- m arithmetic were put to the boy through- an interpreter. In each case (says the'"Ceylon Morning Leader") ho gave-: an answer in a feiy seconds. ' Among tho qoestians wero tiwifoliiiwiflg: Acid together .8,5915,197,713,826- and 9G,< 208,533. Multiply. .45,989 by fM,72G. Tind tho fifth root of 69,313,957. What u'eiglvfc of frater is there in a room flooded 2ft, deep, the room being 18ft. 9in, by 13ft. iin., and a cubic foot of water weighing C2JIb. ?
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 10
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162ARITHMETICAL PRODIGY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 10
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